I just realized I haven’t been on the treadmill for 2 weeks. Â First I was away, then I was working 10 hours a day and didn’t have time. Â it’s so easy for a habit to fall by the wayside when things get hectic or crazy.
Just a brief update on my shed that I mentioned in a late night thread, from the very scant information that my landlord provided and reading the city code for that section; the shed was in the interior set back area. I moved it on Friday to comply with the setback(5′). I asked the landlord for the complete letter and instruction on how to redact any portions that they had an issue with, she agreed, but has not provided a complete copy of the letter as of yet.
Since this thread is abundantly open, I just returned from a week in Montreal and can I say I have never in my life experienced a more pedestrian friendly, park-saturated environment in my life, by a lot. Water features for kids, benches without dividers everywhere, streets closed to traffic all over town. It was incredible. And people there all seemed so happy and calm. What a difference from my road-rage city that usually doesnât even have sidewalks.
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trollhattan
@WaterGirl:Â â
Is that also not a metaphor for life. The treadmill, I mean.
Took a first bike ride yesterday since getting the ‘rona and it was…suboptimal. But you gotta start over somewhere. At least I didn’t fall over.
@đŸBillinGlendaleCA: As I recall from a couple of years ago, your landlords are control freaks with some strange privacy issues.  Can you not contact the city directly?
It looks like the possibility of a debate between California’s Gavin Newsom and Florida’s Ron DeSantis â two governors on the opposite ends of the political spectrum â may still be a ways off.
Newsom’s team on Saturday slammed DeSantis’ proposed rules for their debate on Fox News.
âWhat a joke,” Newsom spokesman Nathan Click said in a statement in response to the proposal that DeSantis’ team sent Fox News host Sean Hannity a day earlier.
“Desantisâ counterproposal is littered with crutches to hide his insecurity and ineptitude â swapping opening statements with a hype video, cutting down the time he needs to be on stage, adding cheat notes and a cheering section,” Click said. “Ron should be able to stand on his own two feet. Itâs no wonder Trump is kicking his ass.â
DeSantis’ team did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
This is exactly what I was predicting. There will be no debate.
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Ivan X
I have like blown the entire day. I think I need to just write it off and start over tomorrow.
Since this thread is abundantly open, I just returned from a week in Montreal and can I say I have never in my life experienced a more pedestrian friendly, park-saturated environment in my life, by a lot.
I have relatives thinking of visiting there. I will pass along your observations. Cool.
@trollhattan: Don’t push yourself too fast, it’s gonna take however long it’s gonna take to get back to your previous normal. Â You don’t want to set yourself back.
@trollhattan: I had pneumonia when I was in college _ more than once! â until we figured out that I was having a reaction to pyrethrins in anti-flea products.
But for one of them, yikes. Â First time I drove in the car after I was “well” a popular song came on and I couldn’t even sing along with it like I always did â I just didn’t have enough breath. Â It was a good couple of months before I could sing that song.
This is exactly what I was predicting. There will be no debate.
Well, that may be the best outcome of all. Â DeSantis gets to look like the sniveling piece of “anti-woke” crap that he is as Newsom bitch-slaps him on and off for a few months.
*Did we ever decide whether it’s still okay to use bitch-slap. Â If it’s not, I will miss it.
@Ivan X: I think you need to listen to some music to get yourself into a better place.
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JoyceH
I went to a movie today! I almost never go to movies in theaters because itâs about 30 miles away, plus expensive and fattening. (Itâs not really the movie theater experience without buttered popcorn.) But MAGAts kept bleating âwoke woke wokety wokeâ, which compelled me to go see Barbie. It was cute, and surely Mattel is going to be smart enough to issue Weird Barbie and Patriarchy Ken dolls.
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Math Guy
Mrs. Math Guy just stomped me in Scrabble – again.
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Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: What was the song? That is an important part of the story.
@WaterGirl: I *loathe* treadmills.  I’ve been a runner for … a very long time, but I’m now in a place and with responsibilities that don’t permit road running (crazy drivers, no free time), so I have to use a treadmill, and đ€Ź .  The balance, the stride, all that stuff, is all different.  Blech.
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M31
@E.: omg I used to live in Montreal and I spent a LOT of time in bakeries lol, I tried one summer to find the best chocolate croissants (“chocolatines”) in the city and it took some effort
lol the winner was a place called, I kid you not, “Chez Fred” in NDG run by a lawyer who got sick of it all and quit law to open a bakery hahahahaha
not that there weren’t quite a few amazingly good runners-up
this great Jewish bakery called Cheskies in Outremont always got my attention too
now I have to go back and do almond croissants, damn
@trollhattan: Elderly American couple boards a bus in deepest darkest Deutschland. Husband sneezes. Someone says Gesundheit. Wife says to husband, Isn’t it nice they speak English here too!
But MAGAts kept bleating âwoke woke wokety wokeâ, which compelled me to go see Barbie. It was cute…
The MAGA crowd and hordes of insecure male pundits were predicting the movie’s failure and front loading negative reviews to try to kill it. Barbie is unstoppable.
Barely three weeks into its run, writer-director Greta Gerwigâs blockbuster has raked in an astounding $1.03 billion at the global box office, according to official Warner Bros. estimates. This makes Gerwig the first solo female director with a billion-dollar movie….
According to Dergarabedian, only about 50 films in history, unadjusted for inflation, have hit the billion-dollar mark.
I haven’t been to a movie theater since the pandemic, but I may have to go see it. Also, I love movie theater butter popcorn.
@bbleh: Yeah, I can see that. Â I just walk on the treadmill. Â Running on the treadmill would not be the same as running outdoors. Â Kind of like fake swimming if you were somehow in a state of suspended animation.
@trollhattan: been there with running — having to start over. Â Sucks, but you’ll improve quickly. Â Don’t set arbitrary goals for yourself or push when you know you shouldn’t be.
LOL, whoops, WG got there first. Â Well, now it’s 2-1, so it’s decided.
@Baud: Any one of them would have been enough to make me walk away. Â But when they demanded all three, it was just too much.
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Omnes Omnibus
@trollhattan: I have found that when restarting it is best to go out for a set period of time and not worry about distance at first. Just to get comfortable in saddle again.
@Omnes Omnibus: They say that’s true about walking, too. Â Just start with a time and pretty soon you will be walking much further in the same amount of time.
Either that or the newest hot prospect on the Please God, Not Trump mega donor circuit.
âPolicy positions can be outlined later, for now just look at those adorable eyes. Heâs like a less pathetic Marco Rubio.â
âYou sure heâs a he?â
ââŠ. Oh, FFS!! Next!â
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Math Guy
@WaterGirl: I donât remember that happening. I did once inadvertently clear my browser of cookies and lost my stats up to that point. Sorry that I canât be of any help.
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mrmoshpotato
Mein Hovercraft ist voll von Aalen!
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Kathleen
@Baud: Something unique to Cincinnati is that instead of saying, “Can you please repeat that” or “Excuse me” they say “Please”? (From the German “Bitte”). When I say that to a not Cincy person out of habit they’ll say “Please what”? and the conversation quickly devolves to a “Who’s On First” level exchange.
ETA: Probably not a coincidence that James Brown recorded his first hit “Please Please Please” at King Records in Cincinnati.
@Brachiator: When I was leaving the theater I noticed groups of moms and girls posing for pictures with the Barbie poster. I go so seldom I donât know if thatâs just part of the new Internet-Social Media era or if it was a sign of the Barbie Phenomenon.
@WaterGirl: My running was on an upward trajectory then I got Covid in May of last year. Since then I gained a minute per mile on my pace and I’m hoping it’s not Covid related.
I normally walk 2 miles at least 4 times a week. But this time of year in SoCal? NFW. It’s 94 deg out (was 96 earlier) and won’t get down to 80 till sunset.
My 22 yo niece, with whom I went to see it yesterday, said the exact same thing!
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sab
@bbleh: I got a treadmill for my husband years ago and the only one who enjoyed it was the german shepherd. She couldn’t run on it, but she enjoyed trotting.
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Kathleen
@bbleh: I agree. I’ve been running for 37 years and I used to be able to run on the treadmill for a long time but for the past 15 years or so I just can’t get my stride or anything right. I’m so glad to find another runner who agrees with me. I still do all my running outside.
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Jackie
@Scout211: LOL! And this is on Faux! Supposedly home turf for Puddân Boots. If Hannity isnât his biggest fan, I hope he ridicules Puddân Boots on his next show – tomorrow!
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Omnes Omnibus
On this date 44 years ago, Bauhaus released Bela Lugosi’s Dead. Thousands of pale, black-lipsticked teens emerged from moping in their darkened bedrooms and ventured out into dark subterranean dance clubs to mope.*
Go! Â Highly recommend the movie. Â Itâs fun, the actors are having a blast and it has a great message. Â I havenât been this enthusiastic about a movie in decades.
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Omnes Omnibus
@Kathleen: I can walk on a treadmill, but I need to run outside.
@Omnes Omnibus: That’s what I’m doing with my running. I’m telling myself to forget the past accomplishments and just approach it like I’m a brand new runner discovering the joy of running 3-4 miles for the first time. I’m 73 so I’m grateful I can still “get out there”.
@Scout211: Did they also include a box for Ron to stand on so Newsom didn’t tower over him? Lol
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dmsilev
@Ruckus: Not too bad early in the morning. I went out for a walk around 8:30 or so today, and the heat was bearable. Wouldnât want to do that right now though.
@Omnes Omnibus: I thought about walking on the treadmill, jacking up the incline and resistance and working up to a slow trot. Nothing gets my heart rate up like running (except maybe the stair master).
The MAGA crowd and hordes of insecure male pundits were predicting the movieâs failure and front loading negative reviews to try to kill it. Barbie is unstoppable.
They’re doing that with all movies these days, even if they have to make shit up out of whole cloth to be outraged about like with the new TMNT movie, lying about the filmmakers making Master Splinter gay. The love interest is a mutant bug lady for the record. But of course, even if they had, so what? It’s not critical to the character and never has been
As for Barbie, these chuds will just do what they’ve done in the past when movies they’ve called “woke” do well; claim that actually the movie was somehow “anti-woke” for reasons
I have been to theaters that actually served butter and also theaters that serve up the butter flavored oil. Love ’em both.
Once I walked into a discount price movie theater near my post office and asked just to buy a big box of popcorn. It was delicious. I was sorry that I also didn’t get a hit dog.
@WaterGirl: Not good with the maths but probably, yeah. I’ve maintained other workouts (You Tube cardio videos are great workouts and provide alternate moves in addition to the straight ahead running in place/elliptical plus I do the elliptical with high incline/resistance plus standing core and upper body workouts. I also do some weights and use a hula hoop! So I’m “in shape” for my age but it’s not the same as “in shape” for running. And I so miss being able to do 8-10 miles easily and feel great.
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JoyceH
@WaterGirl: My sister and I werenât real doll people and kind of rolled our eyes when our aunt got us Barbies. The original classic with the black and white swimsuit. We did wind up playing with them, but didnât get into all the accessories. They were general purpose action figures. So I wasnât doll oriented but got a real kick out of it. I identified most with Weird Barbie and thought Ken really had the most interesting character arc.
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Carlo Graziani
Also, since the Flying Circus is in play, who can forget the unjustly-obscure Baroque composer Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle- dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nĂŒrnburger-bratwustle-gerspurten-mitz-weimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shönedanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm?
@Brachiator: Haven’t watched Barbie yet, but I really liked Oppenheimer a lot. The Twitter discourse did not agree with the actual movie and I think they managed to translate the enthusiasm of the development of early quantum mechanics well.
Plus it was great to see Iron Man and Tommy Shelby in action!
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Barbie2
@JoyceH: I found a couple of (very) old AMC coupons and the husband and I did the Barbie/Oppenheimer this week. I swear, we haven’t been inside a real theater in 8-10 years. Recliners? Yes, please! Both are great movies in their own right, just VERY loud (cranky old person here). Everyone behaved, so that was nice…
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Omnes Omnibus
@Carlo Graziani: I always loved the “of Ulm” part. Because it is important to differentiate that one from the others of the same name.
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Mr. Bemused Senior
@Carlo Graziani: thank you Carlo, I haven’t seen it spelled out until now.
@JoyceH: same here, just a couple dolls and we devised our own outfits and Barbie houses. Weird Barbie* was brilliant.
ETA. Yes, I had older brothers đ
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Carlo Graziani
@Omnes Omnibus: You jest, but Ulm is the home of the extended clan Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nĂŒrnburger-bratwustle-gerspurten-mitz-weimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shönedanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm. When Ulm still had phone books, the had to be printed in 7 parts and palletized for delivery.
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Omnes Omnibus
@schrodingers_cat: Loved it. I don’t have the background in physics that you do, but I agree that they conveyed the joy and wonder of of being at the forefront of a new era very well. Also, they really conveyed very well how small that community was. I think Murphy, Downey, and Blunt are all odds on favorites for Oscars.
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Mousebumples
@WaterGirl: Wordle is working for me without an account. They pop up an ad/request – I hit the X in the corner. đ€·ââïž
Brave browser, if that helps/matters.
Related – I was reading a thread the other day, and the X in the corner of Tweets now made me think I had to “course the pop up”. (*it was early – needed more coffee) But wooooow, another reason why X is a terrible app name and logo. đ€Ł
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BeautifulPlumage
@Mousebumples: i saw someone else point that out. Another reason why the change was a brilliant business move which peons cannot grasp.
What a difference from my road-rage city that usually doesnât even have sidewalks.
We visited Montreal and Quebec about 15 years ago and on the taxi ride from the airport to the hotel, the driver got into a road rage incident with a small truck and the truck  (lightly) rearended us. Luckily, it didnât escalate further.
The actual vacation was much as you described, lovely cities, spaces, lots of walking, excellent restaurants and museums.
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Mousebumples
Mr. Mouse and I had planned to see Barbie this weekend, but ended up watching Oppenheimer instead. Got to the theater 15+ minutes ahead of the Barbie showtime, and ~1 minute “late” for Oppenheimer (aka 9 or so minutes of previews left, lol).
I enjoyed it, though I mostly knew the Story, though the personal life details were mostly unknown to me. I kept wanting to pull out my phone and ID actors/actresses – I’m out of movie theater practice!
Anyhow, Oppenheimer is dark (thematically) and loud, but the insight into the scientists was appreciated. I’d read some books on Feynman in college, but this was a different focus.
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Kelly
@Brachiator:Â only about 50 films in history, unadjusted for inflation, have hit the billion-dollar mark.
Yeah but it’s probably losing money according to the books Hollywood uses to calculate residuals
When I was leaving the theater I noticed groups of moms and girls posing for pictures with the Barbie poster. I go so seldom I donât know if thatâs just part of the new Internet-Social Media era or if it was a sign of the Barbie Phenomenon.
People are having fun with Barbie. I think there are a couple of theaters where you can actually insert yourself into a Barbie poster. And there’s all kinds of stuff online about creating Barbie poster selfies.
And if course people have been dressing up to attend screenings.
Meanwhile, glum conservatives keep looking for hidden messages in the film intended to corrupt the youth of America.
Wordle would still work for me, but they pissed me off with their “new terms” and I just closed it. Â I am done with them. Â Bastards too something fun and ruined it.
Now they try to get you to play other NYT games, etc.
@Brachiator: when I was in San Francisco I went with my friend to the new Indiana Jones. That theater had a big Barbie box you can pose in. So of course we did.
@Uncle Cosmo: As I am going through German lessons right now and that word came up, I found myself wondering how that actually became such a common response in the US.
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Carlo Graziani
I loved Oppenheimer. It is cinematically and narratively brilliant, gets the history of the Manhattan Project and the Cold War aftermath very right, and while not digging into the new physics of the ’20s and ’30s (which would not have been possible without killing the movie) succeeds in capturing the excitement and intellectual ferment that reigned among physicist of that era.
The movie is also a very Nolan work, with three concentric shells of narrative, Matrioschka-style: An inner story concerning Oppenheimer’s early life and his management of the Manhattan Project; a middle layer concerning the story of the AEC proceeding in which Oppenheimer’s Q clearance was revoked; and an outer layer concerning AEC head Lewis Strauss’ Cabinet post confirmation hearing. The three layers are interspersed through the movie, and reflect on each other in typical Nolan style.
It’s probably no accident that an implosion weapon is also a spherical layer-cake of chemical explosive, tamper material, and fissile core…
(Ok, plus a small initiator sphere at the center, but literary license is a thing).
Mattel has come out with a Weird Barbie! No Patriarchy Ken yet, but they are marketing the Iâm Kenough hoody. Their marketing folks are probably having a blast.
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Sure Lurkalot
@Kathleen: Iâm jealous! I had to give up running a few years back with a knee issue. I have since developed other foot issues and had a bad ankle sprain. So Iâm stuck walking and usually 5-7 miles or I donât feel worked out. Â Running was so much more efficient.
Iâm back on my bicycle after being swiped by a car that apparently had no brakes.
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Mousebumples
@WaterGirl: Now they try to get you to play other NYT games, etc.
Haha, and I just tune them out and don’t care. To each their own!
Mr. Mouse and I each play Wordle daily and team up for the Redactle.
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The Thin Black Duke
I saw Oppenheimer.
Mixed feelings. I respect Nolan, and Oppenheimer represented both his strengths and weaknesses as a filmmaker.
The women characters are outdated stereotypes, wasting the talents of Pugh and Blunt. The sex scenes are embarrassing.
However, Nolan is this generation’s David Lean, so visually it’s gorgeous and metaphorically defines the themes and characters of the film.
Also, Nolan isn’t afraid to challenge his audience intellectually, so the scenes where smart characters are engaged into rigorous scientific debate is where Oppenheimer kicks into a higher gear. If you enjoyed Apollo 13 and Hidden Figures, this film has a place in your grey matters toolbox.
The three hours go by painlessly, which means Nolan got the job done, because I waited in spite of my bladder because I wanted to see What Happened Next.
Weird Barbie (Kate McKinnon) was brilliant and definitely should exist as an iconic doll. Â LOL @ the âIâm Kenoughâ hoodie.
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Kathleen
@Sure Lurkalot: I’m so sorry! 5-7 mile walks are a great accomplishment but I know what you mean about the kick. I admire you cyclists. You are brave people. I am too chicken to ride for too many reasons. When I was a kid I could ride forever (I pretended I was Amelia Earhart).
Theyâre doing that with all movies these days, even if they have to make shit up out of whole cloth to be outraged about like with the new TMNT movie, lying about the filmmakers making Master Splinter gay. The love interest is a mutant bug lady for the record. But of course, even if they had, so what? Itâs not critical to the character and never has been…
Yeah. I hate this nonsense and have got into some intense online discussions with various people.
I was too old to care about the Ninja Turtles and I don’t think my younger siblings were in to them either. Still I just don’t care how these and other characters are depicted.
It is funny. The claim is that woke movies don’t make money. But as you suggest, these boneheads have to jump through hoops to explain Barbie’s success.
ETA. The worst of these dopes also tried to claim that Margot Robbie was an over-hyped Hollywood failure. A lot of this was because she didn’t do enough to get them excited when she played Harley Quinn. They are afraid to admit how much they want to play with Barbie.
I can walk to the supermarket, it’s one mile away. But this time of year I go just as or after sunset, as it drops to 78-80. I only go when everything will fit in my knapsack. This time of year I don’t even like to go up front to get the mail if the sun is still out.
I was a young teen when I helped make molds for Barbie. The way they were made back then was all manual work. We make a sample part that is bigger than the result. 1 1/2 to 10 times bigger. Then an epoxy copy of that. Then a manual machine called a pantograph that follows the epoxy contours while cutting into the metal mold cavity. All the work to follow the contour is manual. Think of we made as a jello mold. As a young male teen the proportions of a Barbie seemed to me to be somewhat on the how many women are actually built like this side of things. As I’ve stated here before I also got to meet the couple that with one other guy owned/ran Mattel as we made tools for several toys for them.
@Omnes Omnibus: I have shared this story before but I got to attend several talks by Hans Bethe at the APS centennial That was quite exciting. And once between talks I was sitting about a couple of feet away from him. I was a bit distracted since I was preparing for my own presentation but seeing a steady stream of people stop by, I looked up and realized that it was Hans Bethe He still had his German accent!
@Mousebumples: Feynman was pretty junior at Los Alamos. There were about 131 Nobel prize winners working on the Manhattan Project. It was quite an assemblage.
@Brachiator: “Go woke, go broke” is one of the STUPIDEST meme out there, particularly when used for diversity and ethnicity. Over half of movie tickets sold in the last 5-7 years have been to non-white patrons.
@geg6: Jeezus….Robbie is one of the most drop dead gorgeous women I have ever laid eyes on in the last decade…and she has the talent to match her physical appearance.
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Ken
@geg6: They were screaming and yelling about how Robbie wasnât âhot enoughâ to play Barbie a couple of weeks ago.
Very few actresses have a 40″ bust and a 16″ waist, true.
Theyâre doing that with all movies these days, even if they have to make shit up out of whole cloth to be outraged about like with the new TMNT movie, lying about the filmmakers making Master Splinter gay.
Reading the box office reports, I note that the audience for the Turtles movie is 60 percent male; also 34 percent is under 18. Despite the anti-woke hoopla, I will bet that there are gay fans of the Turtles movies.
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Uncle Cosmo
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: My usually minimally-informed guess is that the word itself sounds like a sneeze so it works like an echo (echo (echo (echo (echo (echo (echo (echo (echo (echo (echo))))))))))
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Uncle Cosmo
@schrodingers_cat:Â I took a course in sadistical mechanics during my year in grad school from Bethe’s proton-proton partner in thoughtcrime, E. E. Salpeter. (It was, in fact, sadistical…)
You are of course aware of the old story about George Gamow inserting Bethe’s name as coauthor of a paper GG had written with his grad student Ralph Alpherâ – mostly in order to create a true howler of a pun…
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Mousebumples
@schrodingers_cat: Feynman was pretty junior at Los Alamos. There were about 131 Nobel prize winners working on the Manhattan Project. It was quite an assemblage.
Haha, fair enough. I think I saw the character playing the bongos in the back of one of the scenes.
While I’m scientifically inclined, physics has never been my strong suit.
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Baud
Danka.
JPL
@Baud: Schoen
WaterGirl
I just realized I haven’t been on the treadmill for 2 weeks. Â First I was away, then I was working 10 hours a day and didn’t have time. Â it’s so easy for a habit to fall by the wayside when things get hectic or crazy.
WaterGirl
@JPL: I was trying to figure out if there was some response I could give in German â I took German every year in high school. Â But I had nothing!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@JPL: my darling
Baud
@WaterGirl:
Bitte.
đŸBillinGlendaleCA
Just a brief update on my shed that I mentioned in a late night thread, from the very scant information that my landlord provided and reading the city code for that section; the shed was in the interior set back area. I moved it on Friday to comply with the setback(5′). I asked the landlord for the complete letter and instruction on how to redact any portions that they had an issue with, she agreed, but has not provided a complete copy of the letter as of yet.
trollhattan
@JPL: Gesundheit!
E.
Since this thread is abundantly open, I just returned from a week in Montreal and can I say I have never in my life experienced a more pedestrian friendly, park-saturated environment in my life, by a lot. Water features for kids, benches without dividers everywhere, streets closed to traffic all over town. It was incredible. And people there all seemed so happy and calm. What a difference from my road-rage city that usually doesnât even have sidewalks.
trollhattan
@WaterGirl:Â â
Is that also not a metaphor for life. The treadmill, I mean.
Took a first bike ride yesterday since getting the ‘rona and it was…suboptimal. But you gotta start over somewhere. At least I didn’t fall over.
WaterGirl
@Baud: Dammit, I just thought of that right before I read your comment.
SiubhanDuinne
@trollhattan:
Backpfeifengesicht.
trollhattan
@E.:Â â
Huh, sounds like a commie plot, safe pedestrian pathways? The horror!
WaterGirl
@đŸBillinGlendaleCA: As I recall from a couple of years ago, your landlords are control freaks with some strange privacy issues.  Can you not contact the city directly?
trollhattan
@đŸBillinGlendaleCA: â
Are you on double-secret probation? That’s the worst!
Scout211
Continuing the saga of the future Newsom-DeSantis debate. DeSantis is adding conditions.
This is exactly what I was predicting. There will be no debate.
Ivan X
I have like blown the entire day. I think I need to just write it off and start over tomorrow.
WaterGirl
@E.: It is interesting how a trip can change your view of what happens around you every day in your regular environment.
When I got back from Boston (over a decade ago) it took a long time before it didn’t seem strange to get in the car for fucking everything.
E.
@E.: Oh and the bakeries! The bakeries! My God, those bakeries!
JCJ
@WaterGirl:Â gern geschehe
ETA:Â or a shorter version – gerne
Brachiator
@E.:
I have relatives thinking of visiting there. I will pass along your observations. Cool.
WaterGirl
@trollhattan: Don’t push yourself too fast, it’s gonna take however long it’s gonna take to get back to your previous normal. Â You don’t want to set yourself back.
But good for you for making the effort!
Chief Oshkosh
@trollhattan:
Another entitlement program…
WaterGirl
@trollhattan: I had pneumonia when I was in college _ more than once! â until we figured out that I was having a reaction to pyrethrins in anti-flea products.
But for one of them, yikes. Â First time I drove in the car after I was “well” a popular song came on and I couldn’t even sing along with it like I always did â I just didn’t have enough breath. Â It was a good couple of months before I could sing that song.
So. hard. to. be. patient.
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: They really do have all the best words.
WaterGirl
@Scout211:
Well, that may be the best outcome of all. Â DeSantis gets to look like the sniveling piece of “anti-woke” crap that he is as Newsom bitch-slaps him on and off for a few months.
*Did we ever decide whether it’s still okay to use bitch-slap. Â If it’s not, I will miss it.
WaterGirl
@Ivan X: I think you need to listen to some music to get yourself into a better place.
JoyceH
I went to a movie today! I almost never go to movies in theaters because itâs about 30 miles away, plus expensive and fattening. (Itâs not really the movie theater experience without buttered popcorn.) But MAGAts kept bleating âwoke woke wokety wokeâ, which compelled me to go see Barbie. It was cute, and surely Mattel is going to be smart enough to issue Weird Barbie and Patriarchy Ken dolls.
Math Guy
Mrs. Math Guy just stomped me in Scrabble – again.
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: What was the song? That is an important part of the story.
WaterGirl
@JCJ: There was a different word for that in my high school classes.
I never knew that word.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: I have no idea!
Baud
@Scout211:
Maybe DeSantis would so better debating a kitten.
Baud
@Math Guy:
You need to play number games, not word games.
bbleh
@WaterGirl: I *loathe* treadmills.  I’ve been a runner for … a very long time, but I’m now in a place and with responsibilities that don’t permit road running (crazy drivers, no free time), so I have to use a treadmill, and đ€Ź .  The balance, the stride, all that stuff, is all different.  Blech.
M31
@E.: omg I used to live in Montreal and I spent a LOT of time in bakeries lol, I tried one summer to find the best chocolate croissants (“chocolatines”) in the city and it took some effort
lol the winner was a place called, I kid you not, “Chez Fred” in NDG run by a lawyer who got sick of it all and quit law to open a bakery hahahahaha
not that there weren’t quite a few amazingly good runners-up
this great Jewish bakery called Cheskies in Outremont always got my attention too
now I have to go back and do almond croissants, damn
also now I’m hungry for bagels
marcopolo
@WaterGirl: Das ist nichts.
Uncle Cosmo
@trollhattan: Elderly American couple boards a bus in deepest darkest Deutschland. Husband sneezes. Someone says Gesundheit. Wife says to husband, Isn’t it nice they speak English here too!
;^D
Tony Jay
@Baud:
Would the kitten be awake?
WaterGirl
@Baud: Speaking of word games, a couple of weeks ago the NYT wanted me to agree to a bunch of terms in order to keep playing Wordle.
I still hate them for buying it and ruining it, but I closed Wordle, never to open it again.
Now I play WordPlay, and I don’t start every day annoyed with the NYT.
Orange is the New Red
@JoyceH: i just ordered Wierd Barbie, and I am eagerly awaiting Patriarchy Ken but haven’t heard anything yet.
Baud
@Tony Jay:
It’ll certainly be woke.
Brachiator
@JoyceH:
The MAGA crowd and hordes of insecure male pundits were predicting the movie’s failure and front loading negative reviews to try to kill it. Barbie is unstoppable.
I haven’t been to a movie theater since the pandemic, but I may have to go see it. Also, I love movie theater butter popcorn.
WaterGirl
@bbleh: Yeah, I can see that. Â I just walk on the treadmill. Â Running on the treadmill would not be the same as running outdoors. Â Kind of like fake swimming if you were somehow in a state of suspended animation.
WaterGirl
@marcopolo: That one, I knew!
bbleh
@trollhattan: been there with running — having to start over. Â Sucks, but you’ll improve quickly. Â Don’t set arbitrary goals for yourself or push when you know you shouldn’t be.
LOL, whoops, WG got there first. Â Well, now it’s 2-1, so it’s decided.
Baud
@WaterGirl:
Terms
WaterGirl
@Brachiator:
Movie theater butter popcorn is not butter. :-(
Math Guy
@WaterGirl: ?? I declined their invitation to create an account, but Iâm still able to play. How are you accessing the game?
WaterGirl
@Baud: Any one of them would have been enough to make me walk away. Â But when they demanded all three, it was just too much.
Omnes Omnibus
@trollhattan: I have found that when restarting it is best to go out for a set period of time and not worry about distance at first. Just to get comfortable in saddle again.
WaterGirl
@Math Guy: They wanted me to sign some terms even though I don’t even sign into the NYT account that I had years ago.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: They say that’s true about walking, too. Â Just start with a time and pretty soon you will be walking much further in the same amount of time.
Tony Jay
@Baud:
Either that or the newest hot prospect on the Please God, Not Trump mega donor circuit.
âPolicy positions can be outlined later, for now just look at those adorable eyes. Heâs like a less pathetic Marco Rubio.â
âYou sure heâs a he?â
ââŠ. Oh, FFS!! Next!â
Math Guy
@WaterGirl: I donât remember that happening. I did once inadvertently clear my browser of cookies and lost my stats up to that point. Sorry that I canât be of any help.
mrmoshpotato
Mein Hovercraft ist voll von Aalen!
Kathleen
@Baud: Something unique to Cincinnati is that instead of saying, “Can you please repeat that” or “Excuse me” they say “Please”? (From the German “Bitte”). When I say that to a not Cincy person out of habit they’ll say “Please what”? and the conversation quickly devolves to a “Who’s On First” level exchange.
ETA: Probably not a coincidence that James Brown recorded his first hit “Please Please Please” at King Records in Cincinnati.
Omnes Omnibus
@mrmoshpotato: You’d better cut down then.
JoyceH
@Brachiator: When I was leaving the theater I noticed groups of moms and girls posing for pictures with the Barbie poster. I go so seldom I donât know if thatâs just part of the new Internet-Social Media era or if it was a sign of the Barbie Phenomenon.
Mr. Bemused Senior
@mrmoshpotato: I wish to plead incompetence.
mrmoshpotato
@Omnes Omnibus: Cut down?
Kathleen
@WaterGirl: My running was on an upward trajectory then I got Covid in May of last year. Since then I gained a minute per mile on my pace and I’m hoping it’s not Covid related.
Mr. Bemused Senior
@mrmoshpotato: perhaps Mr. Smoke-too-much?
mrmoshpotato
@Mr. Bemused Senior: Incompetence? Why? The hovercraft is full! Chock full of eels!
Ruckus
@WaterGirl:
I normally walk 2 miles at least 4 times a week. But this time of year in SoCal? NFW. It’s 94 deg out (was 96 earlier) and won’t get down to 80 till sunset.
geg6
@JoyceH:
My 22 yo niece, with whom I went to see it yesterday, said the exact same thing!
sab
@bbleh: I got a treadmill for my husband years ago and the only one who enjoyed it was the german shepherd. She couldn’t run on it, but she enjoyed trotting.
Kathleen
@bbleh: I agree. I’ve been running for 37 years and I used to be able to run on the treadmill for a long time but for the past 15 years or so I just can’t get my stride or anything right. I’m so glad to find another runner who agrees with me. I still do all my running outside.
Jackie
@Scout211: LOL! And this is on Faux! Supposedly home turf for Puddân Boots. If Hannity isnât his biggest fan, I hope he ridicules Puddân Boots on his next show – tomorrow!
Omnes Omnibus
On this date 44 years ago, Bauhaus released Bela Lugosi’s Dead. Thousands of pale, black-lipsticked teens emerged from moping in their darkened bedrooms and ventured out into dark subterranean dance clubs to mope.*
*I kid because I love.
geg6
@Brachiator:
Go! Â Highly recommend the movie. Â Itâs fun, the actors are having a blast and it has a great message. Â I havenât been this enthusiastic about a movie in decades.
Omnes Omnibus
@Kathleen: I can walk on a treadmill, but I need to run outside.
WaterGirl
@Kathleen: So maybe a 5% slowdown?
Kathleen
@Omnes Omnibus: That’s what I’m doing with my running. I’m telling myself to forget the past accomplishments and just approach it like I’m a brand new runner discovering the joy of running 3-4 miles for the first time. I’m 73 so I’m grateful I can still “get out there”.
geg6
@JoyceH:
My niece and her mom, my sister, posed for me in front of the poster at the theater. Â The pics are adorable. Â We all wore pink, too.
WaterGirl
Would Barbie be of interest for someone like me who never played with dolls and really didn’t want a Barbie as a kid?
I wonder if most of it would go over my head?
mrmoshpotato
@Mr. Bemused Senior: These ribs are baked, not smoked. :)
Cacti
@Scout211: Did they also include a box for Ron to stand on so Newsom didn’t tower over him? Lol
dmsilev
@Ruckus: Not too bad early in the morning. I went out for a walk around 8:30 or so today, and the heat was bearable. Wouldnât want to do that right now though.
Tomorrow looks to be somewhat better than today.
Carlo Graziani
@mrmoshpotato: FahrvergnĂŒgen!
Kathleen
@Omnes Omnibus: I thought about walking on the treadmill, jacking up the incline and resistance and working up to a slow trot. Nothing gets my heart rate up like running (except maybe the stair master).
Ruckus
@WaterGirl:
There will come a time when no matter how much you walk you still don’t go faster. It’s called old fartitus.
Don’t ask me how I know this……
JoyceH
@geg6: the only pink things I have are my shoe laces. So I went movie themed with my âNakatomi Plaza Christmas Party 1988â tee.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Brachiator:
They’re doing that with all movies these days, even if they have to make shit up out of whole cloth to be outraged about like with the new TMNT movie, lying about the filmmakers making Master Splinter gay. The love interest is a mutant bug lady for the record. But of course, even if they had, so what? It’s not critical to the character and never has been
As for Barbie, these chuds will just do what they’ve done in the past when movies they’ve called “woke” do well; claim that actually the movie was somehow “anti-woke” for reasons
geg6
@WaterGirl:
Go! Â Youâll like it. Â You know more about Barbie than you think and it does give some background. Â Itâs just fun!
Brachiator
@WaterGirl:
I have been to theaters that actually served butter and also theaters that serve up the butter flavored oil. Love ’em both.
Once I walked into a discount price movie theater near my post office and asked just to buy a big box of popcorn. It was delicious. I was sorry that I also didn’t get a hit dog.
geg6
@JoyceH:
Hahahaha! Â I like it!
Kathleen
@WaterGirl: Not good with the maths but probably, yeah. I’ve maintained other workouts (You Tube cardio videos are great workouts and provide alternate moves in addition to the straight ahead running in place/elliptical plus I do the elliptical with high incline/resistance plus standing core and upper body workouts. I also do some weights and use a hula hoop! So I’m “in shape” for my age but it’s not the same as “in shape” for running. And I so miss being able to do 8-10 miles easily and feel great.
JoyceH
@WaterGirl: My sister and I werenât real doll people and kind of rolled our eyes when our aunt got us Barbies. The original classic with the black and white swimsuit. We did wind up playing with them, but didnât get into all the accessories. They were general purpose action figures. So I wasnât doll oriented but got a real kick out of it. I identified most with Weird Barbie and thought Ken really had the most interesting character arc.
Carlo Graziani
Also, since the Flying Circus is in play, who can forget the unjustly-obscure Baroque composer Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle- dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nĂŒrnburger-bratwustle-gerspurten-mitz-weimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shönedanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm?
Another Scott
@Omnes Omnibus: “No nonono, he’s outside. Looking in…”
;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
BeautifulPlumage
@WaterGirl: I think anyone who understands what Barbie was/is will enjoy the movie. You didn’t actually had to have played with them.
I loved it so much I’m going again. First time for me in theaters for years, but it’s that well done.
@geg6: agree with this. I saw teenage boys enjoy it (they were part of a group who dressed up).
schrodingers_cat
@Brachiator: Haven’t watched Barbie yet, but I really liked Oppenheimer a lot. The Twitter discourse did not agree with the actual movie and I think they managed to translate the enthusiasm of the development of early quantum mechanics well.
Plus it was great to see Iron Man and Tommy Shelby in action!
Barbie2
@JoyceH: I found a couple of (very) old AMC coupons and the husband and I did the Barbie/Oppenheimer this week. I swear, we haven’t been inside a real theater in 8-10 years. Recliners? Yes, please! Both are great movies in their own right, just VERY loud (cranky old person here). Everyone behaved, so that was nice…
Omnes Omnibus
@Carlo Graziani: I always loved the “of Ulm” part. Because it is important to differentiate that one from the others of the same name.
Mr. Bemused Senior
@Carlo Graziani: thank you Carlo, I haven’t seen it spelled out until now.
schrodingers_cat
@Omnes Omnibus: How did you like Oppenheimer?
Another Scott
@WaterGirl: Yes.
I didn’t play with dolls either (not even GI Joe).
It’s a great movie.
Go. Don’t have preconceptions. Just watch and enjoy.
Cheers,
Scott.
Pappenheimer
@mrmoshpotato:
Nein.
Mein Luftkissenfahrzeug ist voller Aale
Now, paint that on the building a hundred times, or I’ll…
WaterGirl
@Kathleen: Wow, that’s impressive!
BeautifulPlumage
@JoyceH: same here, just a couple dolls and we devised our own outfits and Barbie houses. Weird Barbie* was brilliant.
ETA. Yes, I had older brothers đ
Carlo Graziani
@Omnes Omnibus: You jest, but Ulm is the home of the extended clan Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nĂŒrnburger-bratwustle-gerspurten-mitz-weimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shönedanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm. When Ulm still had phone books, the had to be printed in 7 parts and palletized for delivery.
Omnes Omnibus
@schrodingers_cat: Loved it. I don’t have the background in physics that you do, but I agree that they conveyed the joy and wonder of of being at the forefront of a new era very well. Also, they really conveyed very well how small that community was. I think Murphy, Downey, and Blunt are all odds on favorites for Oscars.
Mousebumples
@WaterGirl: Wordle is working for me without an account. They pop up an ad/request – I hit the X in the corner. đ€·ââïž
Brave browser, if that helps/matters.
Related – I was reading a thread the other day, and the X in the corner of Tweets now made me think I had to “course the pop up”. (*it was early – needed more coffee) But wooooow, another reason why X is a terrible app name and logo. đ€Ł
BeautifulPlumage
@Mousebumples: i saw someone else point that out. Another reason why the change was a brilliant business move which peons cannot grasp.
rikyrah
I love her channel. Her cat loves to make biscuits on her face. The combination of the cat along with her facial expressionsđđđđ
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZT8LxoENo/
Sure Lurkalot
@E.:
We visited Montreal and Quebec about 15 years ago and on the taxi ride from the airport to the hotel, the driver got into a road rage incident with a small truck and the truck  (lightly) rearended us. Luckily, it didnât escalate further.
The actual vacation was much as you described, lovely cities, spaces, lots of walking, excellent restaurants and museums.
Mousebumples
Mr. Mouse and I had planned to see Barbie this weekend, but ended up watching Oppenheimer instead. Got to the theater 15+ minutes ahead of the Barbie showtime, and ~1 minute “late” for Oppenheimer (aka 9 or so minutes of previews left, lol).
I enjoyed it, though I mostly knew the Story, though the personal life details were mostly unknown to me. I kept wanting to pull out my phone and ID actors/actresses – I’m out of movie theater practice!
Anyhow, Oppenheimer is dark (thematically) and loud, but the insight into the scientists was appreciated. I’d read some books on Feynman in college, but this was a different focus.
Kelly
Yeah but it’s probably losing money according to the books Hollywood uses to calculate residuals
Brachiator
@JoyceH:
People are having fun with Barbie. I think there are a couple of theaters where you can actually insert yourself into a Barbie poster. And there’s all kinds of stuff online about creating Barbie poster selfies.
And if course people have been dressing up to attend screenings.
Meanwhile, glum conservatives keep looking for hidden messages in the film intended to corrupt the youth of America.
WaterGirl
@Mousebumples:
It’s not that it stopped working without a login.
Wordle would still work for me, but they pissed me off with their “new terms” and I just closed it. Â I am done with them. Â Bastards too something fun and ruined it.
Now they try to get you to play other NYT games, etc.
mrmoshpotato
@Carlo Graziani: Wow. Take that Dr. Pat! (Storybots)
JoyceH
@Brachiator: when I was in San Francisco I went with my friend to the new Indiana Jones. That theater had a big Barbie box you can pose in. So of course we did.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Uncle Cosmo: As I am going through German lessons right now and that word came up, I found myself wondering how that actually became such a common response in the US.
Carlo Graziani
I loved Oppenheimer. It is cinematically and narratively brilliant, gets the history of the Manhattan Project and the Cold War aftermath very right, and while not digging into the new physics of the ’20s and ’30s (which would not have been possible without killing the movie) succeeds in capturing the excitement and intellectual ferment that reigned among physicist of that era.
The movie is also a very Nolan work, with three concentric shells of narrative, Matrioschka-style: An inner story concerning Oppenheimer’s early life and his management of the Manhattan Project; a middle layer concerning the story of the AEC proceeding in which Oppenheimer’s Q clearance was revoked; and an outer layer concerning AEC head Lewis Strauss’ Cabinet post confirmation hearing. The three layers are interspersed through the movie, and reflect on each other in typical Nolan style.
It’s probably no accident that an implosion weapon is also a spherical layer-cake of chemical explosive, tamper material, and fissile core…
(Ok, plus a small initiator sphere at the center, but literary license is a thing).
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@WaterGirl:
What were the new terms out of curiosity?
JoyceH
Mattel has come out with a Weird Barbie! No Patriarchy Ken yet, but they are marketing the Iâm Kenough hoody. Their marketing folks are probably having a blast.
Sure Lurkalot
@Kathleen: Iâm jealous! I had to give up running a few years back with a knee issue. I have since developed other foot issues and had a bad ankle sprain. So Iâm stuck walking and usually 5-7 miles or I donât feel worked out. Â Running was so much more efficient.
Iâm back on my bicycle after being swiped by a car that apparently had no brakes.
Mousebumples
Haha, and I just tune them out and don’t care. To each their own!
Mr. Mouse and I each play Wordle daily and team up for the Redactle.
The Thin Black Duke
I saw Oppenheimer.
Mixed feelings. I respect Nolan, and Oppenheimer represented both his strengths and weaknesses as a filmmaker.
The women characters are outdated stereotypes, wasting the talents of Pugh and Blunt. The sex scenes are embarrassing.
However, Nolan is this generation’s David Lean, so visually it’s gorgeous and metaphorically defines the themes and characters of the film.
Also, Nolan isn’t afraid to challenge his audience intellectually, so the scenes where smart characters are engaged into rigorous scientific debate is where Oppenheimer kicks into a higher gear. If you enjoyed Apollo 13 and Hidden Figures, this film has a place in your grey matters toolbox.
The three hours go by painlessly, which means Nolan got the job done, because I waited in spite of my bladder because I wanted to see What Happened Next.
Kathleen
@WaterGirl: Thank you.
geg6
@JoyceH:
Weird Barbie (Kate McKinnon) was brilliant and definitely should exist as an iconic doll. Â LOL @ the âIâm Kenoughâ hoodie.
Kathleen
@Sure Lurkalot: I’m so sorry! 5-7 mile walks are a great accomplishment but I know what you mean about the kick. I admire you cyclists. You are brave people. I am too chicken to ride for too many reasons. When I was a kid I could ride forever (I pretended I was Amelia Earhart).
Brachiator
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Yeah. I hate this nonsense and have got into some intense online discussions with various people.
I was too old to care about the Ninja Turtles and I don’t think my younger siblings were in to them either. Still I just don’t care how these and other characters are depicted.
It is funny. The claim is that woke movies don’t make money. But as you suggest, these boneheads have to jump through hoops to explain Barbie’s success.
ETA. The worst of these dopes also tried to claim that Margot Robbie was an over-hyped Hollywood failure. A lot of this was because she didn’t do enough to get them excited when she played Harley Quinn. They are afraid to admit how much they want to play with Barbie.
Ruckus
@dmsilev:
I can walk to the supermarket, it’s one mile away. But this time of year I go just as or after sunset, as it drops to 78-80. I only go when everything will fit in my knapsack. This time of year I don’t even like to go up front to get the mail if the sun is still out.
geg6
@Brachiator:
They were screaming and yelling about how Robbie wasnât âhot enoughâ to play Barbie a couple of weeks ago.
Omnes Omnibus
@geg6:Â â
?!?!?!?!
Brachiator
@geg6:
I have no words for this level of idiocy.
Margot Robbie is also a producer for Barbie. I am hugely happy for her success.
Ruckus
@BeautifulPlumage:
I was a young teen when I helped make molds for Barbie. The way they were made back then was all manual work. We make a sample part that is bigger than the result. 1 1/2 to 10 times bigger. Then an epoxy copy of that. Then a manual machine called a pantograph that follows the epoxy contours while cutting into the metal mold cavity. All the work to follow the contour is manual. Think of we made as a jello mold. As a young male teen the proportions of a Barbie seemed to me to be somewhat on the how many women are actually built like this side of things. As I’ve stated here before I also got to meet the couple that with one other guy owned/ran Mattel as we made tools for several toys for them.
schrodingers_cat
@Omnes Omnibus: I have shared this story before but I got to attend several talks by Hans Bethe at the APS centennial That was quite exciting. And once between talks I was sitting about a couple of feet away from him. I was a bit distracted since I was preparing for my own presentation but seeing a steady stream of people stop by, I looked up and realized that it was Hans Bethe He still had his German accent!
kalakal
@Carlo Graziani: I met his brother, Tim, once
schrodingers_cat
@Mousebumples: Feynman was pretty junior at Los Alamos. There were about 131 Nobel prize winners working on the Manhattan Project. It was quite an assemblage.
gwangung
@Brachiator: “Go woke, go broke” is one of the STUPIDEST meme out there, particularly when used for diversity and ethnicity. Over half of movie tickets sold in the last 5-7 years have been to non-white patrons.
@geg6: Jeezus….Robbie is one of the most drop dead gorgeous women I have ever laid eyes on in the last decade…and she has the talent to match her physical appearance.
Ken
Very few actresses have a 40″ bust and a 16″ waist, true.
Brachiator
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Reading the box office reports, I note that the audience for the Turtles movie is 60 percent male; also 34 percent is under 18. Despite the anti-woke hoopla, I will bet that there are gay fans of the Turtles movies.
Uncle Cosmo
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: My usually minimally-informed guess is that the word itself sounds like a sneeze so it works like an echo (echo (echo (echo (echo (echo (echo (echo (echo (echo (echo))))))))))
Uncle Cosmo
@schrodingers_cat:Â I took a course in sadistical mechanics during my year in grad school from Bethe’s proton-proton partner in thoughtcrime, E. E. Salpeter. (It was, in fact, sadistical…)
You are of course aware of the old story about George Gamow inserting Bethe’s name as coauthor of a paper GG had written with his grad student Ralph Alpherâ – mostly in order to create a true howler of a pun…
Mousebumples
Haha, fair enough. I think I saw the character playing the bongos in the back of one of the scenes.
While I’m scientifically inclined, physics has never been my strong suit.